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Some remarkable songs

Herman van Veen – Ein ganz dicker Kusshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWpN-YRrtw
Herman van Veen is an outstanding artist and I’ve been listening to his songs ever since my childhood. He plays various instruments, obviously speaks Dutch, German and French (maybe even more languages). He came up with the a Dutch theatre show that was used to create the European Dutch-Japanese kids TV series Alfred Jodokus Kwak, which is a comedy-drama according to wikipedia. The theme song “Warum bin ich so fröhlich” is widely-known – at least in Germany.

Anyways, back to this particular song “Ein ganz dicker Kuss”. It’s a song dedicated to his parents and thoughts about what it would be like once they’re gone.

And it ranges from trivial but poetic “the flea market will lose a regular customer”, “the socialist party will lose a true socialist”, “two bikes will be missing in the shed”, but ends in “The best part of me / will be standing on a picture / with a silver frame / 2 persons at the beach”

Herman van Veen – An eine ferne Prinzessinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCL1OvZUhXM
A beautiful masterpiece “poem-like” song about a love long gone that has never been “loved”. Lying in bed, when the radio plays just the right music. Makes me a little sad. My thoughts are just about you – after all that time. Where might you be? We were friends – you and I. Would do anything – except for one thing.

Lera Lynn – My least favorite Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFh71_ftxLE
From the TV series True Detective Season 2.
Just. An. Amazing. Amazing. Melancholic. Song. Better watch the True Detective Season 2 first and when you come to this song the whole setting will give you goosebumps – at least that’s what happened to me.